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Thanks! Still learning the game maths and this just made my decision to keep my shield/SS tanker rather than re-rolling much easier! Especially when Against All Odds gets added into the mix, holy moly.

Wouldn't it technically be even closer ? It looks like you have a typo for the brute calculation on double stacked rage: 0.75*5.2 = 3.9 So 3.9 vs 3.42 of tanker

Hi all, Put together a build -- It's significantly overcapped on S/L/F/C/E/Psi, but I can't seem to find a combination that doesn't deteriorate my defenses/recharge while shoring up Neg/Toxic enough. Wondering if going Brute might be a better idea to gain some damage (lose some AOE potential) to offset the overages. DDR hole outside of Ageless obviously, but with EA, I think that's expected and isn't really avoidable? Any recommendations would be most welcome!

Ice melee on anything. Greater Ice Sword is terrible and they could benefit from another attack. Especially with the double dipping boxing+kick buff to cross punch.

Messed around a bit more and I think I at least have a more well-rounded build now. Brought Hasten back in and dumped Assault for it -- a pity, but I do like Hasten having a lot less downtime (with lucky Force Feedback procs every so often), which in turn brings down the absorbs a great deal and Blackstar to a lovely 26-33 second recharge. Ablative is nearly 100% uptime now, so that should help significantly as I had to drop Defense quite a bit from the very original stanker build. Played around with adding some procs and added a few to Umbral Torrent -- I know you mentioned they're better in ST, but I already was going to use Force Feedback and KB to KD in Torrent, so I figured a couple added here wouldn't be bad. I added a few to the other powers, but the defense/resistance loss got me into the 'OMG im going to be tissue paper' fear stage, so I reverted -- an unfortunate side effect of being a career Tanker. Now I just have to figure out if Mind Probe + Dominate + Link Minds are worth the 3 slots, or if Assault + 2 other fillers will be better. I've heard a lot of good things on Mind Probe + Dominate, but it just seems like I have an overabundance of attacks, with pretty low recharge times.

Thanks again! I see now, if I de-activate Kick, Mids was considering the Force Feedback Recharge at 100% uptime, which was skewing my haste to a ridiculous amount. That makes WAY more sense -- now I'm thinking I may need to add Hasten back in 🙂 Will play around with this -- I appreciate the help!

Thank you for the detailed response, it's very much appreciated and no offense taken -- I haven't played CoH since before Issue 16, so I have a lot of catching up to do. I am coming from Tankers, so I definitely had more emphasis on defense and essentially made a... Stanker. I was thinking with the mix of +ToHit, Accuracy, Endurance management, and defenses, I would just be converting to and eating lots of Red insps to boost my solo damage, because the others would essentially be useless to me. Another part I think I'm confused on is the damage reference to the T1, Dark Blast -- I'm seeing it listed as 95 damage, 80 DPA. From that reference, it's making me think I'm not using or reading Mids properly. Definitely not a build for exemplaring, but I will try to re-arrange some of the skills. For now, I've re-adjusted the primary sets and was actually able to boost Psionic defense up quite a bit (one of the huge holes previously), while significantly boosting Max HP and Damage. Replaced Hasten with Link Minds as it only will have a ~20 second gap in uptime, but acts as a nice defense replacement.

Hi all, I'd love some advice on a Dark/Bio build -- my aim was for mostly soloing -- sturdy defense, decent dps. I put together this build with the intention of covering most of the damage types. Thankfully Dark has a lot of -ToHit debuffs that can help shore up a few of the lesser resistances like Psionic. Is it worth running this many defensively focused sets in primary skills, or would I be better off going the proc route? Thank you!